Great to see this piece out! Drawing on her PhD research, Yihan Yan shows how media discourses shape views of dog ownership in Chinese cities + how it becomes a problem to be managed. Really interesting work on more-than-human geographies & the right to the city! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really important initiative from some colleagues in geography and beyond.

Orbán came in on a landslide and he’s going out on one. So much work to rebuild what these last 16 years have crushed, but this is a great night for Hungary.

Includes our UoM-CARA fellow colleague Wiesam Essa. We’d often joke about the Manchester weather. Colleagues had found another post for him when his university and apartment was bombed in Jan 2024.

Anyone remember ZNET? Back in the mid 2000s I wrote a number of articles there on South Korea about migrant labour, precarious work, free trade agreements, and more. They were offline for years and I didn't save any copies. The site is back up so I've downloaded them and put them up on academia.

One of the best parts of the job is working with amazing PhD Researchers, and its excellent when their hard and brilliant work is recognised. Congratulations to @cperguom.bsky.social Yihan Yan on winning this year's @geographers.bsky.social Urban Geography Specialty Group Grad Student Paper Award!

Coupang has been flying an American flag of convenience and cosying up to MAGA. The latest salvo is a letter cosigned by 56 Republicans. Is this the new shape of globalization: Maga-adjacent geopolitical positioning to leverage the US state to help protect domestic tech monopoly rents back home?

Running a fieldcourse built on practitioner access is harder to organise than tours or a transect survey, but the pedagogical payoff is fantastic. Huge credit to my co-instructors, esp @jamiedoucette.bsky.social for making it happen.

Students also ran their own research projects across the week. Interviews, observation, field notes and it was great to see their semester’s worth of prep materialise into fieldwork and initial findings!

The visit to L'Olivera was a highlight of the week. A worker cooperative producing wine and olive oil in a model that integrates people with disabilities as full cooperative members, not as recipients of charity but as owners of the enterprise.

Day 1 we visited Can Batlló, a former industrial complex in Sants reclaimed by neighbours and transformed into a community hub. Emphasis on community ownership and alternate social relations.

Back in Manchester after a great week in Barcelona with our 2nd year geographers @uomseed.bsky.social. Fieldcourse on coop economies and alternative economic spaces. We took students into the world of Barcelona's solidarity economy. Worker co-ops, housing cooperatives, social currencies...

Thanks to @itsbethperry.bsky.social & @goodfellowtom.bsky.social for inviting me to their #UrbanRadar podcast to talk about my #UKRI_FLF on health crises. It's a privilege to talk about this work. I hope some of it is useful to those working in this space www.buzzsprout.com/2451716/epis...

Health crises are difficult, and crisis in urban research is complex, and there's still so much to learn. @healthierfutures.bsky.social @cperguom.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social

Our new Queer and Trans Histories series creates a home for cutting‑edge work on past and present LGBTQ+ lives. We’re looking for proposals grounded in rich empirical work and innovative approaches to intimacy, emotion, silence, and subjectivity. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...

This week the UN ECOSOC’s Partnership Forum is foregrounding cities via SDG 11, on sustainable, inclusive urban futures. A good reminder from this @urbangeography.bsky.social piece on the imperatives & paradoxes of gender mainstreaming in urban policy & theory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Important piece by my friend and colleague Anders Riel Muller.

Successful policies are ‘made’ to fail on political grounds all the time, in the case of drug policy this usually has deadly consequences. I’ve written about the ways governments construct those failures discursively and materially www.ijurr.org/article/from...

With a fantastic lineup of speakers 🤩 Join us online on Thursday, February 19th at 3pm (UK time)! RSVP via Eventbrite for the Zoom link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

Podcast with Juia Mortimer and visiting CPE member Felipe Magalhaes.

Great to have @felmagalhaes.bsky.social present his current work at our final @cperguom.bsky.social seminar of the term. Discussion ranged from deindustrialisation in the context of authoritarian neoliberalism to futbol and populism. Looking forward to the book! @uomseed.bsky.social

Last year I recorded a podcast while visiting U Mich. It's just been published. The series is about personal and professional career paths. Lot's of talk about the 1990s alter-globalization movement, the problem with the IVY league, Oxbridge, and the North American tenure-track system... 1/2

"Technology, the labor process, and the working class" (1976) archive.org/details/tech...

A bit of Vancouver in Manchester! Great to have Jesse Proudfoot giving a @cperguom.bsky.social talk about his work on addiction, structural racism and urban politics. @uomseed.bsky.social

Thank you so much for all the generosity, Cristina! The conversation in the end was great, hopefully we can have more!

I don't normally post FT content, but, wow, this article is excellent! Surveys a range of actors, initiatives, and critics active in this space. It can feel niche teaching about this so great to see it covered in a single article. #startupcities #blockchain #cryptobros #neoreaction #chartercities

Radio Free People's tapes (via the Liberation News Service, 1971: jstor.org/stable/community.28039451)

This piece on Locating Crisis, along with the other fascinating commentaries, now has a home in Vol 3.3 of Dialogues in Urban Research! journals.sagepub.com/toc/DUS/curr...

Outro workshop excelente de geografia crítica, pros doutorandos e recém-doutores. Mais uma vez: hospedagem incluída e possibilidade de passagens.

New post up! Learn more about Waterloo Place on the @officialuom.bsky.social campus in the 1970s, once home to a whole range of radical political projects and groups. linktr.ee/peoplespapers

Next up: rent strikes, housing co-ops, squatting, communes and more! A housing periodicals appreciation post 🙏 www.instagram.com/peoplespapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

If anyone is thinking about attending SASE 2026 and looking for a panel on East Asia, democracy, political economy, here's something i'm putting together. Pop me an email if your interests fit and would like to participate. Feels like SASE might be popular this year as many avoid US-based events.

If you're in Manchester, please join us in the Department of Geography, @uomseed.bsky.social Wed 26th November. Dr Jesse Proudfoot will be giving talk on: Connecting symptoms to social causes: Reading carceral urbanism in Chicago through a drug addiction. 3pm HBS, g.33 @cperguom.bsky.social

A pleasure to speak about recent work on Global Urban Perspectives on Social Work for Innovative Access to Homeless Care at a great event on the Impact of the Specialist Homelessness Social Work Role & Next Steps for Policy & Practice organised by Manchester Council and KCL

*Job alert* We are advertising two opportunities @manchester.ac.uk, linked to the JUST centre (www.just.ac.uk) - A Post-Doctoral Research Associate on Social & Built Infrastructure (www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...) - A PhD on Green Skills & Communities (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...)

Wed 5th Nov @cperguom.bsky.social Cities, Politics, & Economies Research Group in the Department of Geography & MUI @uomseed.bsky.social will host a talk by Dr Rakib Akhtar on: Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city, chaired by @mehebubsahana.bsky.social 3pm in HBS G33.

A goal of the #UKRI Urban Crisis project is to shift conversations on health inequalities & poverty to see it as a whole person / whole systems issue. So it was such a privilege for our team to co-organise a policy exchange with the Municipality of Athens. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e...

Save the date! We'll have materials to share from @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @aiucentre.bsky.social and a roundtable discussion with folks sharing their reflections and experiences from the time. Should be a lively and participatory discussion! @cperguom.bsky.social @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

Went ahead a made a separate account for this archival research -- follow along @peoplespapers.bsky.social !

Interested to learn more about this People's Papers project? Check out a link of upcoming and past events as well as recent blog posts here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers

Another excellent event coming up organized by CPE's Arielle Lawson. See you there!

Special Section in The GJ: 'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

A reminder of our departmental seminar series this autumn.

Some good speakers coming to GDI this semester.

Congrats!

In Athens 26th Sept? Join us for a workshop on Best Practices for Addressing Homelessness Outreach Across Athens, Greece, Manchester U.K., & Santiago, Chile. English translation provided. The event is part of our UKRI Urban Crisis Project and co-sponsored with the Municipality of Athens.

Want to hear more about some of the many alternative local newspapers (such as LOP) that sprang up around the UK in the 1970s and 1980s? If so, this online event might just be for you. Thanks to @feministcity.bsky.social, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @cperguom.bsky.social, among others.

The Department of Geography at The University of Manchester has a really full and exciting seminar series this autumn, if you're in town, do come join us! @cperguom.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to sit in the passenger seat with Laam Hae's driving on the long journey that became this article. It's focused on her extensive work on the topic here, but I had some modest input with the theoretical framing.... 1/4

Next up in the #Manchester Urban Film series, we're focusing on the city's contested music (and urban) histories. We'll be showing film + interview clips followed by a collective discussion. Learn more and sign up to join us on Sept 25th here: mancunianway.eventbrite.co.uk @cperguom.bsky.social